Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots #33: Sticks & Stones May Break Your Bo...

"Democrats will find themselves back in power before long, possibly in a big way due to Trump’s increasing unpopularity and the uselessness of the Republicans in Congress. When they do, do not expect them even to pay lip service to freedom of speech. Free speech is violence, after all."--Dave Blount

If you thought the University of San Francisco 's "privilege cards" were a stupid, racist flash in the pan, you won't be amused to learn that Brooklyn's advertising their nasty brand of racism, too:

Purdue has also entered the fascist fray, as Saul Teeter explains, as students in a class were given “Privilege Scorecards.. Apparently, handing out a small card insulting people you disagree with isn't enough for this Ivy League indoctrination center...nope, those kids need an entire survey!

This scorecard is a logical endgame of the emphasis that leftists have been putting on victimhood and the Oppression Olympics, championing those who have perceived disadvantages as inherently more virtuous. The obvious logical flaw here is that separating groups of people by physical characteristics and then assigning them virtue is the dictionary definition of racism.

I don't know where I picked this bit satirical look at progressive madness, but in the Purdue spirit, I offer it for your consideration:

On to the Swamp:

Blount, Dave: New York Times Endorses Authoritarian Concept That Free Speech Is Violence

An absurd and alarming notion has become prevalent among militant campus snowflakes that would spell an end to freedom of speech if widely implemented. They say that being exposed to thoughts they don’t like is equivalent to physical violence. Of course, most thoughts are offensive to someone, so this only applies to thoughts deemed offensive to those at the top of the P.C. caste system, i.e., those known in leftist theology as the “marginalized”: blacks, Muslims, illegal aliens, sexual deviants — in short, anyone cultural Marxists can play off against the core population. This notion of speech as violence is now going mainstream — if the “Paper of Record” can still be regarded as mainstream.

Camp, Frank: Leftists Sending Ridiculous ‘Check Your Privilege’ Cards

Privilege Cards are exactly what you think they are. On the front of the small paper product is a message surrounded by exclamation points, reading: "Uh-Oh! Your privilege is showing." On the back, the card reads: "You've received this card because your privilege just allowed you to make a comment that others cannot agree or relate to." Underneath the message are check boxes with points of "privilege."

Dowd, Frank IV: Why don’t millennials like capitalism? Blame parents. Blame schools. Blame Obama

During the Obama years, the 18-29 age group heard countless presidential speeches railing against the evils of “crony” capitalism. President Obama told impressionable young voters if only the rich paid more taxes, everyone would be better off. But Obama’s tax and spend policies produced a predictably stagnant economy that stifled economic opportunity for young people.

The Obama agenda also attacked the notion of personal responsibility, killed on the altar of universal “rights” and the politics of victimhood. The Left preached that everyone has a “right” to free child care, free health care, a free college education and a roof over their head. And that the State will provide no matter what, so there’s no need to save, no need to work hard or pay your mortgage or student loans.

Sexton, John: Evergreen Student: ‘People Were Calling Us Nazis And White Supremacists And Racists’

Ultimately, this student blames the situation on the college’s leadership and faculty than on the students. “I’m not sure if there are more legitimate ways to actually talk to George [Bridges] about this,” she says.

“He certainly hasn’t facilitated meetings where it’s not okay to yell and scream. So I think that he set this precedent for behavior that has led anger to be legitimized. And certainly [professor] Naima Lowe screaming at other faculty members and swearing at them and threatening Bret’s wife Heather has set the example that students are allowed to act this way as well and actively hunt people on campus and go around with baseball bats and spread out other student’s information.”

Teeter, Saul: INSANITY: Purdue Hands Out “Privilege Scorecards” To Students

This scorecard is a logical endgame of the emphasis that leftists have been putting on victimhood and the Oppression Olympics, championing those who have perceived disadvantages as inherently more virtuous. The obvious logical flaw here is that separating groups of people by physical characteristics and then assigning them virtue is the dictionary definition of racism.

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Ken McVay OBC
@dragon40, Certified Curmudgeon

“The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”--Carlo M. Cipolla

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